Re: "Mailbox is unchanged"
On 2009-04-27, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, April 27 at 08:17 PM, quoth mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>>A problem seems to have started recently: Mutt seems to think
>>that my mailbox is always unchanged.
>
> Why is that a problem?
>
>>I have around 100 read emails in my spool (and growing) and
>>when pressing '$' to sync, mutt just says "Mailbox is unchanged".
>
> As has been discussed extensively recently, when you sync (e.g. with
> the $ key), mutt doesn't check for new messages, it just pushes its
> changes to disk.
I think all of the confusion is due to the fact that people
expect the "sync" command to sync, and they assume that
"mailbox is unchanged" means that the mailbox is unchanged.
Silly users!
> Thus, if you haven't made any changes since the last time you
> sync'd or opened the box, then mutt will say "Mailbox is
> unchanged". What that means is "I didn't change anything about
> the mailbox".
It appears to me that mutt has some significant problems with
misleading names of functions and wording of messages.
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